Thursday, June 08, 2017

X-Zone Broadcast Network - Oak Island and Joy Steele

This
week I reached out to Joy Steele who had offered an alternative explanation for
the depression found on Oak Island that became known as the Money Pit. We
started with a brief history of the area, but given the time constraints, had
to work through that quickly so that some of the information was condensed. You can listen to the interview here:

There
is other information about Joy, her investigations into the mystery of Oak
Island, research into South Carolina earth kilns of the eighteenth century and
how all that relates to Oak Island. You can see some of that here:

The
point she was making, and one that sometimes gets lost in the controversy, is
that the construction and the look of these kilns seems to match that of the
original money pit right down to the flagstones found two feet down and the
vault that was found during one of the attempts to find the money. Debris found
inside the pit itself, and some of the artifacts found on the island also
support this conclusion. The swamp area, according to Steele, would have been
necessary for their work in repairing ships if her theory is correct, and the
Laginas boys had found debris in the swamp that suggested there had been a
ship, or ships there in the distant past.

Other
aspects of the Oak Island mystery are explained by the evidence found on the
ground, including what appeared to be a British camp on the island in the
eighteenth century. Given the real lack of results in the search for treasure,
and that some of the artifacts pulled from the money pit might have been put
there to induce investors to spend additional money, what she said made a lot
of sense.